Who needs a job anyway?
So, I'm unemployed.
Economic crisis and all that bollocks. They didn't foresee any more investment funding coming in before they ran out of cash..and with no actual revenue model (and userbase), the writing was on the wall. I found out on Thursday, and by Friday I'd handed in my laptop and it was all over.
There was a 50% "downsizing", which basically took them back to the team they had before the more recent of us started 9 months ago.
It was a pretty fun ride, and I learnt a lot of (useful) things. And as far as I know, I built the world's most secure and awesome OpenID provider ever. But now they don't have anyone to maintain it, I'm guessing it won't really ever see the light of day, which is a real pity - means I've got virtually nothing to show for my last few months at work. Sigh. I've gotta check my employment contracts and see if I'll be able to salvage it some other form..don't think it'll work though, really.
It's a bit of a prick of a time to be looking for work at the moment, too, given that Christmas is coming up, as well as OSDC, and two weddings in Canberra.
So, at least until the new year I'll be looking for some contract/freelance work to tide me over. Give me a yell if you've got anything for me, yeah?
In the meantime, I'm gonna spend some days getting some sadly neglected symfony plugins back up to scratch (as well as release a few new ones). Gotta keep busy, gotta keep goin' forward.
Economic crisis and all that bollocks. They didn't foresee any more investment funding coming in before they ran out of cash..and with no actual revenue model (and userbase), the writing was on the wall. I found out on Thursday, and by Friday I'd handed in my laptop and it was all over.
There was a 50% "downsizing", which basically took them back to the team they had before the more recent of us started 9 months ago.
It was a pretty fun ride, and I learnt a lot of (useful) things. And as far as I know, I built the world's most secure and awesome OpenID provider ever. But now they don't have anyone to maintain it, I'm guessing it won't really ever see the light of day, which is a real pity - means I've got virtually nothing to show for my last few months at work. Sigh. I've gotta check my employment contracts and see if I'll be able to salvage it some other form..don't think it'll work though, really.
It's a bit of a prick of a time to be looking for work at the moment, too, given that Christmas is coming up, as well as OSDC, and two weddings in Canberra.
So, at least until the new year I'll be looking for some contract/freelance work to tide me over. Give me a yell if you've got anything for me, yeah?
In the meantime, I'm gonna spend some days getting some sadly neglected symfony plugins back up to scratch (as well as release a few new ones). Gotta keep busy, gotta keep goin' forward.